Matthew Winters is a Senior Project Associate, EDSAFE AI Alliance. He was the first fulltime AI Education Specialist at a state educational agency in the United States at Utah State Board of Education (USBE). He was also the Utah Coalition for Educational Technology (UCET) President for 2022-2024.

He was named one of the International Society for Technology in Education’s 20 to Watch in 2023, awarded ASU + GSV’s Educational Innovation Award for Impact 2025 Winner, named Tech & Learning’s Best Example of Professional Development in 2025, and named District Administrator magazine’s Top 100 Innovative Educators in 2025. He is a former English Language Arts teacher at the secondary and college level.

He has been a podcaster for six years, first with Edtrex Rewind and The UCET Podcast and then with UEN Homeroom and ISTE’s The Edge. He loves stories, creativity, and technology, and the intersections where all three topics grow together.